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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2013

'Léonard Foujita from the Collection of the Pola Museum of Art'

A central figure in Paris during its eponymous School of Paris era, Léonard Foujita (Tsuguharu Fujita, 1886-1968) found early success with portraiture and painting. While the female nude was often the subject of earlier works, after World War II, he changed his focus to make children a central theme....
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON: DESIGN
Aug 5, 2013

Easy furniture and all things green

Rearranging furniture with the flip of a coin
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2013

Ailing vets point to Vietnam-era transport planes

Nearly three dozen rugged C-123 transport planes formed the backbone of the U.S. military's campaign to spray Agent Orange over jungles hiding enemy soldiers during the Vietnam War. And many of the troops who served in the conflict have been compensated for diseases associated with their exposure to...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013

The real mission for Pope Francis

Pope Francis has yet to initiate a conversation on where the Catholic Church might end up if organizational reforms and attitudinal concessions are carried out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2013

The messy, chaotic real life of artists

A couple of years ago, the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, who knows enough about journalism to hardly ever give interviews herself, spoke to Katie Roiphe for the Paris Review. Except that she didn't actually speak to her — or at least, not while Roiphe's tape recorder was rolling.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2013

Obsessing over inequality threatens capitalism

It's wrong to see income gains at the top as proof of U.S. capitalism's ingrained wickedness, or to forget that clumsy intervention might affect everybody else's income.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 3, 2013

Iran's Rouhani faces pressure over economy

Iran's economy is showing signs of foundering just as the country prepares to inaugurate its first new president in eight years, with Western sanctions cutting ever deeper into the Islamic republic's financial lifelines and increasing pressure for a nuclear deal with the West.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 2, 2013

The yellow flag outside the door — life or death

One thing is as sure as death: You will receive mail long after you die. My mother, who passed away three years ago, still gets direct mail ads and catalogs in the mail even though I'm pretty sure she's not going to buy anything.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2013

Detroit is bust, but it's still Henry Ford's world

Henry Ford, born 150 years ago, defied the bromide about necessity being the mother of invention, as there was no demand for the Model T until he built it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 2, 2013

Different perceptions of smell linked to genetics

The next time you argue with a friend about the whiff of cilantro in your stir-fry that he finds disgusting, blame his genes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 2, 2013

Pity the driver: Cabbie salaries much lower than average

Deregulation and the recession have chipped away at taxi driver pay over the years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 1, 2013

'Hope Springs'

Feminism is redefined in "Hope Springs," a tale of two 60-somethings locked in a marriage gone stale and opting for a week of intensive marriage counselling in a picturesque Maine town.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUJI ROCK 2013
Jul 31, 2013

Savages

Is there anyone you're hoping to catch at the festival?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUJI ROCK 2013
Jul 31, 2013

Steruss

You're performing on the Red Marquee this year as a result of winning the Rookie A Go-Go competition at last year's festival, how does that feel?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUJI ROCK 2013
Jul 31, 2013

Toro y Moi

You've played Japan before, were they festivals?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2013

'American Pop Art: From the John and Kimiko Powers Collection'

John and Kimiko Powers began collecting American Pop Art from its early beginnings in the 1960s. Noted for their patronage of artists, the couple's collection is now one of the most comprehensive of the Pop Art movement.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2013

'ICC Kids Program 2013 "AR Museum" AKAMATSU Masayuki + ARART Project'

The latest video games blur the line between the real and the virtual by integrating the user's environment with game-play. This use of augmented reality is the theme of "AR Museum," an exhibition aimed at engaging children with technology.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jul 30, 2013

Seibu's Prince Hotels ventures into China ski resort; new Haneda special souvenir

ANNOUNCEMENTS
LIFE / Digital
Jul 30, 2013

Post-Snowden, the days of the global Internet are numbered

Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 30, 2013

Crowdsourced art project to printout the Web honors free-information activist

The World Wide Web began to show up by snail mail at the end of May. It arrived on sheets of office paper, stacked in white boxes, slipped into bubble-wrapped manila sleeves, folded into a clean, white business envelope with Rosa Parks stamps, stuffed in neon-green packaging from Farmington Hills, Michigan....
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 30, 2013

Pope's accepting comments on gays mark change in tone

In another act of the kind of humble outreach that has marked the early months of his papacy, Pope Francis called on Monday for the integration of gays into society, remarking that even as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he has no right to "judge" gay people.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 29, 2013

Recommendations for Setouchi Triennale island hoppers

This year more than 150 new artworks are being introduced at the Setouchi Triennale, making a total of around 200 pieces in the islands' collection.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2013

Risks of limiting NSA's collection of phone data

There's a risk that Congress or the White House will impose constraints on the NSA that would reduce America's ability to protect itself against the next 9/11.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013

Idaho mom sues Obama over surveillance program

Anna Smith is a mother of two who lives in rural Idaho, works the night shift as a nurse and goes to the gym a lot. She rarely follows the news and knows little about the debate over government surveillance and privacy that has rocked Washington in recent weeks.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 28, 2013

Hyper, mega, ultra: talking in superlatives

One of the ultra-fascinating facets of Japanese is its super-large arsenal of intensifying prefixes that provide an otherwise neutral expression with some emphatic edge. The best-known (and least spectacular) of them is dai (大), which usually translates as "big." When something went really well, for...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2013

Obama: Korean War vets 'deserve better'

President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and more levies on China
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19. Trump on Monday threatened to slap China, Mexico and Canada with hefty tariffs upon his return to the White House.
AI boom makes 139-year-old cable maker Japan’s hottest stock
Fujikura's headquarters in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The company's share price has surged by more than 400% this year.
Sapporo explosion leaves at least four injured
Firetrucks gather around a building in Sapporo where an explosion left four people injured on Tuesday.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
Rayssa Leal and Chloe Covell on Japan’s teen skaters: We are friends, not rivals
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal celebrates after winning the women's Street League Skateboarding competition on Saturday in Tokyo.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.

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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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